Bobby Frank Cherry

Bobby Frank Cherry (20 June 1930-18 November 2004) was a Ku Klux Klan member and one of the terrorists responsible for the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Biography
Bobby Frank Cherry was born in Clanton, Alabama on 20 June 1930, and he gained an expertise in explosives and demolition while serving with the US Marine Corps. After leaving the Marines, he became a truck driver, and he joined the racist Ku Klux Klan terrorist group to fight against the Civil Rights movement. Cherry was known to be a cruel person, beating his wife and children; in 1957, he showed his violence by attacking pro-Civil Rights Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth with brass knuckles, and he pistol-whipped an African-American man in a restaurant after he insulted him. In 1963, he was one of the perpetrators of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, killing four black schoolgirls and injuring over 20 people. It would not be until 2002, however, that he was tried for the bombing, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment; he died in prison two years later.